spaghettiwestern @ spaghettiwestern @sh.itjust.works

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A sentencing hearing broke down this week over a disagreement about a sentencing enhancement for a self-employed handyman from Texas who admitted to using a metal whip and unloading a can of bear spray on officers during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Taake had been on pretrial release for a pending child-solicitation case in Texas when he went to the Capitol ready for violence, armed with bear spray and a metal whip, prosecutors said.

Only the best people.

I'm sure that corporate profits are "creeping higher" too, despite already being at 70 year highs.

I would think that after watching Musk's magic touch lose over 70% of the value of Twitter and nearly half of Tesla's value (since the nearly $300/share price last year) the shareholders may be realizing the emperor has no clothes.

I hope the Dems keep forcing a vote. Make the GQP assholes go on record for taking Arizona back to 1864 again and again. It'll do wonders for the GQP majority in November.

There are a number of ways to access your Linux drives from Windows (I did it regularly when I ran Windows) and if your drive hasn't been wiped your data is probably all accessible. Here's a link that should help: https://www.howtogeek.com/112888/3-ways-to-access-your-linux-partitions-from-windows/

I spent much of Trump's term trying to understand and reason with the right wing magats on social media. The vast majority were complete idiots, unable to spell (even with spell check), use capitalization, or write a sentence, much less a complete paragraph that made any sense.

After hundreds of exchanges three things became pretty clear:

1. They gloried in the fact that Trump had become president despite (or often because of) the fact he was an adulterous, thrice divorced, repeatedly bankrupt, lying pervert that gloried in sexually assaulting women.
2. Their primary incentive was flat out cruelty. They wanted to inflict as much pain as they could on the "other". They hated pretty much everyone who wasn't a white Christian and that hate was another major motivation.
3. They believed that the Trump presidency was proof that their ignorance was just as good as other people's knowledge. (Paraphrasing Isaac Asimov.)

Ultimately I learned that there is no reasoning with these people. Sneering is the best they're going to get.

It's beyond belief, but insurance companies do the same thing to amputees.

We have all become unwilling, unpaid employees of every company in their pursuit of higher profits. It's a feature, not a bug.

Corporations have discovered that there is no real downside (for them) when they don't function. Customer satisfaction no longer has much of an impact on their profits because the few companies left in each sector are doing the exact same thing.

IMO this is yet another side effect of unchecked corporate power. It's the same reason prices have risen so rapidly and corporate profits have reached 70 year highs. We are dealing with near monopolies and the billionaire class who created them. Until our government addresses the problem it's not going to get any better.

In other words it's not going to get better in our lifetimes.

Windows went a step further on my machine. I thought it had just screwed up my bootloader, but when I went to restore it my Linux partition was completely gone. Windows Update had deleted the partition.

Malware is right.

She's daring Smith to appeal. He should oblige her.

Which is exactly why Rudy is trying to change his residency from NY to FL.

Sometimes a comment comes along that's so full of bullshit it's kind of impressive.

So we need to evacuate the entire East Coast and Gulf Coast (hurricanes), the Midwest (tornadoes), the West Coast (fires), and any city built next to a river? Really?

Depends on the phone. Oneplus has a 65 watt charger.

Hey, somebody's gotta pay for the highest corporate profits in 70 years.

IMO increasing hate crimes is a feature not a bug. Plenty of MAGA would be thrilled if LGBTQ was a sign on one of Trump's concentration camps.

Just returned 2 Eufy cameras because the company claims ownership of my video streams and won't allow me access to those streams. Their website conveniently hides the fact that almost all of their cameras are locked to their base station or their cloud, and makes it look like the streams are readily accessible. Ultimately that means Eufy can pull the plug at any time.

Many people got wise to the printer ink racket, they'll eventually figure out these cloud services are to be avoided too.

Oh look, another pathological liar and malignant narcissist in a leadership position at the GQP. They should start a choir.

Avoiding a company because of they are attempting to avoid unionization is a double-edged sword. It costs the company business and, in turn, costs the very people trying to unionize their jobs. I've made a choice to keep going to TJ's for the time being.

We shop at Aldi and TJ's regularly. The grocery stores in my area charge literally double for many of the same items. Considering the grocery stores probably pay lower wholesale prices than either Aldi or TJ's it yet another example of the highest corporate profits in 70 years.